Orphaned minx Silvia ditches boarding school for uncle's Roman pad, where her flirtatious charms turn every relative into fair game for improper fun. After her mother's death, young Silvia arrives at her recently remarried uncle's home in Rome and promptly sets about seducing the entire household. Cousin Elena instantly spots the danger in her uninhibited relative, but Silvia wastes no time rekindling childhood games of doctor with younger cousin Marco, submitting to her aunt's maternal fussing...
Sixteen-year-old French firecracker escapes her screwed-up family by sleeping her way through Paris – raw, relentless, unforgettable. Suzanne lives crammed in a Paris flat with her furrier parents and bullying writer brother. At summer camp she ditches her needy boyfriend Luc, loses her virginity to a random American lad, then returns home and beds one boy after another just to feel something. Dad (played by the director himself) packs up and leaves for another woman, Mum goes full neurotic...
Chaucer gets the Pasolini treatment: muddy pilgrims, horny wives, foolish husbands, crooked clergy and enough naked mischief to make an English teacher choke on his tea. Pier Paolo Pasolini plays Chaucer himself, quietly observing the pilgrims travelling from London to Canterbury and turning their appetites, lies and disasters into eight loosely linked tales. This is no polite illustrated classic. It opens with wealthy, ageing Sir January buying himself a beautiful young bride, May, only to...
A bored Paris writer follows two elegant women through a velvet door marked desire—and finds domination, humiliation and danger waiting on the other side. Jean is a jaded writer who leaves his self-imposed isolation for a fashionable Paris party, where he runs into Claire, an old acquaintance with the cool manners of a society hostess and the eyes of a woman accustomed to getting exactly what she wants. Yet it is Claire’s quiet young companion Anne who catches his attention. Claire casually...
A glamorous judge’s wife shoots her gangster lover, stages an attempted rape, and watches her elegant life unravel under the gaze of a dangerously smitten lawyer. Stéphane Feuvrier appears to have everything: wealth, social position, a grand home, an influential magistrate for a husband and an eighteen-year-old daughter. Then she calmly kills Wadek Aslanian, a notorious criminal and supposed folk hero, inside her house. With help from her fiercely loyal maid Madeleine, she tears her clothes...
In a post-nuclear apocalypse, two men and one woman wake up speechless in the wasteland, regress to pure savagery, screw each other silly including the dog, and watch paradise go feral. Eligio Herrero’s 1983 Spanish oddity *Animales racionales* (Human Animals) is a dialogue-free, prog-rock scored post-nuke fever dream from the freewheeling early-’80s “S”-rated softcore wave right after Franco. Two seeming siblings in evening clothes and a leather-jacketed macho type open their eyes in a blasted...
A sun-kissed Ukrainian stunner dozes on a deserted Italian beach and tumbles into feverish erotic dreams that leave her moaning and bare for all to see. In this breezy 28-minute Italian short, gorgeous blonde Yuliya Mayarchuk strolls onto an empty stretch of sand, slips into a skimpy blue bikini, stretches out and drifts off under the Mediterranean sun. What follows is a cascade of surreal, sensual dream sequences—random oddities giving way to hotter fantasies involving a strapping young lover...
A lusty plumber, a smouldering coffee girl and one very ominous photocopier turn a workplace crush into Mexico City’s grimmest spring awakening. Igor is a maintenance man buried in the rusty bowels of a vast office building; Pina is the attractive, virtually invisible woman who serves coffee upstairs. Their first encounter in the basement skips introductions and heads straight for animal appetite—clothes open, mouths busy, bodies ready—until Igor abruptly loses his nerve and Pina walks away...
A convent school cutie ditches her rosary beads for Emmanuelle fantasies and Hong Kong's fleshly temptations, proving she's no longer mama's little girl. Teenage Felicity Robinson, stuck in a remote Australian Catholic boarding school, secretly devours erotic classics like Story of O and Emmanuelle while sharing soft, curious caresses with her friend Jenny. Her father packs her off for a Hong Kong holiday with wealthy friends Christine and Stephen, where a party introduces her to the forward...
Lulu climbs society one bewitched lover at a time, leaving dead husbands, ruined men and a very cold trail of desire behind her. Walerian Borowczyk’s Lulu is less a steamy romance than a brisk, blackly comic procession of lust, jealousy and male self-destruction. Lulu begins as the young wife of the wealthy Dr Goll, but domestic respectability plainly cannot contain her. While posing for the painter Schwarz, she turns the sitting into a seduction; when Goll walks in on them, the shock kills...
A blue-haired art student walks into Adèle’s life, and first love becomes a three-hour feast of desire, class friction and bruising heartbreak. Adèle is a shy Lille schoolgirl doing what everyone expects: reading novels, gossiping with friends and half-heartedly dating Thomas, a handsome boy who leaves her cold. Then she passes Emma in the street—a slightly older art student with cropped blue hair—and one exchanged glance knocks her carefully ordinary life sideways. Adèle follows that desire...
Paz Vega lights the fuse, Leonardo Sbaraglia loses his uniform, morals and mind, and Vicente Aranda watches nineteenth-century Spain burn with lust and jealousy. A French traveller named Prosper Mérimée meets the condemned outlaw José and visits him in prison, where the former soldier tells the story of the woman who demolished his respectable life. José begins as a stiff, dutiful Basque sergeant stationed near Córdoba’s sweltering cigar factory. When Carmen slashes a co-worker during a vicious...
An ageing painter, his wounded son and a flame-haired muse find beauty, desire and a new artistic future under the warm sun of wartime Provence. In 1915, Pierre-Auguste Renoir is living out his final years at his estate near Cagnes-sur-Mer. His wife is dead, his legs are failing and rheumatoid arthritis has twisted his hands so badly that a brush must be placed between his fingers. Yet the stubborn old master continues to paint, surrounded by female servants who carry, wash and fuss over him...
A draft-dodging fake count meets a naked would-be starlet beside Lake Geneva, and one lazy summer turns into a very French cocktail of lust, lies and regret. Victor Chmara is a young Frenchman hiding from military service during the Algerian War, lodging under a borrowed identity and passing himself off as a Russian count with money to burn. Drifting through the grand hotels of Lake Geneva, he falls in with two splendid oddballs: René Meinthe, a flamboyant doctor who calls himself the Queen of...
Ovid teaches Rome how to seduce, but Marina Pierro proves that love lessons become dangerous once jealous husbands, loose servants and free-range lust join the class. In Augustan Rome, the celebrated poet Ovid lectures an eager crowd on his Ars Amatoria, treating seduction as something halfway between philosophy, military strategy and a dirty weekend. His most attentive pupil is Cornelius, a handsome young man who fixes his sights on Claudia, the voluptuous wife of the tribune Macarius. Claudia...
A respectable prison governor risks wife, child and career for Adèle Exarchopoulos—proof that some locks are easier to pick than a middle-aged man’s common sense. Jean Firmino is an able, outwardly decent governor of a women’s prison: married, settled, approaching forty and trusted to keep order without behaving like a tin-pot tyrant. Then Anna Amari arrives awaiting trial, angry, withdrawn and clearly carrying enough emotional baggage to fill an entire cell block. Her crime is deliberately...
A forbidden portrait becomes a two-hour seduction by glances, brushstrokes and bad timing—French romance served rare, smoky and quietly devastating. In Brittany in 1770, Marianne, a young painter played by Noémie Merlant, arrives at an isolated estate to paint Héloïse, the aristocratic daughter of a countess. The finished portrait will be sent to Héloïse’s prospective husband in Milan, and if he likes the merchandise, so to speak, marriage follows. There is one snag: Héloïse refuses to pose...
A shy young man misses the last train but catches a curvy stranger’s eye, turning a deserted Rome Metro station into a cheeky exhibitionist playground. Giorgio is entering the Rome Metro with a friend when they spot a beautiful woman leaving the ladies’ room with the back of her dress accidentally caught in her panties. After enjoying the view for a moment, they politely warn her, and she fixes herself with surprisingly little embarrassment. Giorgio’s friend catches his train, but Giorgio...
Two strangers lock eyes amid the swaying stalks and soon they're making passionate, unsimulated love in a sun-dappled cornfield—until darkness creeps in and threatens to snatch it all away. In this sleek 14-minute Dutch short, a nameless man and woman discover each other in a vast cornfield, stripping away clothes and inhibitions as their bodies entwine in raw, intimate connection. What starts as tender exploration builds into full-on coupling—oral, penetration, close-ups of real penetration...
A harried Berlin chambermaid, dry as a bone for seven years, stumbles naked into a blind artist's steamy embrace and finally gets soaked in pure, delicious desire. Antonia, a frazzled single mum and hotel housekeeper, dumps her lad on the bus to see his dad in France, rocks up late to her luxury digs job, and nearly gets the boot. A cheeky colleague clocks her tears and zero action for ages, urging her to seize the next chance. Entering an empty suite, she freezes as famous blind portrait...
